Quotes of Note

haikwho — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:57:47 +0000

You have to question your originality of your life when it can be captured perfectly in the lyrics of a rock song.

Jonathan Tropper
The Book of Joe (2004) 82

haikwho — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:36:24 +0000

in longing you close your eyes,
but in wonder you open them.

Myra Shapiro
The Best American Poetry 1999 (1999) 151

haikwho — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:37:39 +0000

The mystery of water cannot even be understood by canoe.

Teri Zipf
"Against the Lake"

haikwho — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:55:32 +0000

Listen. But not too carefully, since what I’m saying is not exactly what I mean.

James Richardson
Vectors (2001) #465

haikwho — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:50:50 +0000

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings.

Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird (1994) 113

haikwho — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:55:27 +0000

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

mr. whittier
from chuck palahniuk’s ‘haunted’

haikwho — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:56:14 +0000

Do you believe in love at first site,
or do I have to walk by you again?

anonymous

haikwho — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:09:36 +0000

Most people don’t know what they are doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

George Carlin
Napalm and Silly Putty (2001) 117

haikwho — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:14:23 +0000

Most of what we feel we’ve lost, we’ve never had.

Richard Flint
Life is a Maze (1986)

haikwho — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:50:28 +0000

People ask if machines can have souls. And I ask back whether souls can learn.

Marvin Minsky
The Society of Mind (1986) 4.3